Garrison

Member since: Aug 29th, 2005

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Video tour of Microsoft Max (Download Squad)

Jan 18th 2006 9:02PM Is this anything like Microsoft Bob?

MOTAS, Today's Time Waster (Download Squad)

Sep 22nd 2005 4:36PM Note to post author: Those types of games are adventure games (more specifically point-and-click adventures), not RPG's.

MapContacts: See Your Contacts in Google Earth (Download Squad)

Sep 13th 2005 7:41PM $49? That seems a little rediculous, seeing that you could just copy and paste the address into Google Earth anyway. Besides, Google will probably add that kind of functionality for free anyway, in due time.

Microsoft: Please buy Office 2003 ... pretty please? (Download Squad)

Sep 13th 2005 6:06PM I've used everything from Office 95 to present, and I can't think of even one useful feature I have now that wasn't in the older versions. (When I say "useful", I mean ones that I use, ever.) If Microsoft wants to hang on to its user base, it needs to innovate - now there's a new idea! By the way, I think OpenOffice could stand to innovate too - it's never going to get more users unless it has really attractive features that are unavailable in Office. P.S. I can't believe they're just now adding an RSS reader to Outlook, and calling it a "feature". That should've been in there years ago!

Ask Download Squad: Google - good or evil? (Download Squad)

Aug 29th 2005 4:11PM Why Google is good: 1) They make powerful, clean, fast applications and give them away - most without any ads at all. This is quite unlike Microsoft, which charges rediculous amounts of money for products such as Windows and MS Office. 2) They hold a vision that someday all [public] information will be readily accessible and easy to find... no more digging through card catalogs! 3) They support the open-source community (see code.google.com, especially Summer of Code). 4) They help out with scientific research. Google Compute, for instance, uses your computer's idle time to help find cures for many illnesses (this is done through Stanford University). 5) Google uses open standards, not proprietary like Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL, etc. They want the consumer to choose the best software, not the most-used proprietary protocol. (As with Google Talk.) If Google is selling a bunch more stock, won't that just mean more great free tools and software for us?